From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:08:37 GMT Subject: [PATCH 00/18] Support symbolic links on Windows Message-ID: This finally upstreams Git for Windows' support for Windows' branch of symbolic links, which has been maturing since 2015. It is based off of js/prep-symlink-windows. Bill Zissimopoulos (1): mingw: compute the correct size for symlinks in `mingw_lstat()` Johannes Schindelin (3): mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions mingw: emulate `stat()` a little more faithfully mingw: special-case index entries for symlinks with buggy size Karsten Blees (14): mingw: don't call `GetFileAttributes()` twice in `mingw_lstat()` mingw: implement `stat()` with symlink support mingw: drop the separate `do_lstat()` function mingw: let `mingw_lstat()` error early upon problems with reparse points mingw: teach dirent about symlinks mingw: factor out the retry logic mingw: change default of `core.symlinks` to false mingw: add symlink-specific error codes mingw: handle symlinks to directories in `mingw_unlink()` mingw: support renaming symlinks mingw: allow `mingw_chdir()` to change to symlink-resolved directories mingw: implement `readlink()` mingw: implement basic `symlink()` functionality (file symlinks only) mingw: add support for symlinks to directories compat/mingw-posix.h | 6 +- compat/mingw.c | 635 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- compat/win32.h | 6 +- compat/win32/dirent.c | 5 +- read-cache.c | 11 + 5 files changed, 507 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-) base-commit: 6f6fe02f5fe587ec9788f8a5a34281949d7b2ca1 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2018%2Fdscho%2Fsymlinks-next-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2018/dscho/symlinks-next-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2018 -- gitgitgadget